The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Catholic church. The diocese will be |
called the Yankton diocese. A cathedral |
will be built and diocesan school. Nearly |
500, 600 will be expended in new buildings !
THE schooner Clara, Of Manistee, was
driven ashore on the oath near Miller,
Ind, and her wreckage was strewn along
the beach for miles. Captain Olson, her
master and owner, and one of his sailors
lost their lives, and John Gustavson, the
mate, escaped by swimming ashore on
plank.
NATIONAL bank repositories now hold
500, 254 ,2Q Of Government funds. This is
the greatest amount Of funds ever held by
the repositories at one time.
SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER has made a
statement explaining his recent trouble
with the court at Woodstock, Va.
NATHAN PHIPPs, coal miner living at
| Wildwood, seven miles from Latrobe, Pa,
shot and mortally wounded his friend,
John Robb, on the oath, after which he
terribly injured Mrs. Phipps by stabbing
her and breaking several Of her ribs. He
then armed himself with a rife and shot
gun and fed to the woods.
BUCHANAN and adjoining counties in
Missouri are organizing an anti-horse-thief
association.
THE Secretary of War on the 25th made
requisition on the Civil Service Commits
sion for 212 names, from which to select
fifty-three for positions left vacant by
promotions.
VIsCoUNT DoNERAILAE's death from hy-
drophobia has shaken the faith of many
in the efficacy of Pasteur's plan of treat
ing rabies.
THE dissatisfaction among the officers of
the Belgian army at the Kings military
policy is growing. General Brailmont has
resigned.
GOVERNOR MoREHoUsE OF Missouri has
offered a reward of $500 for the apprehen-
sion of Rev. West, for the murder of Susie
Beck.
MEMBERS of the Grand Army had
demonstration at Wheeling, WA, on the
26th, and refused to walk under portrait
of the President.
ALEXANDER MCCUE, Solicitor of the
Treasury, has been appointed Commits
sioner of Fish and Fisheries, to succeed
Prof Baird, deceased.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
recommended the pardon of Lieutenant
Knight, James A. Brooks and Henry Putt,
convicted Of manslaughter at Fort Smith,
Ark.
VICE-PREsDENT POTTER of the Union
Pacific railroad intimates that the com.
pany would dispose of its coal mines in
Wyoming if a purchaser ocVld be found at
a reasonable price.
RIGHT REV. R. W. B. ELLIOT, Bishop Of
Western Texas, died at Sewanee, Tenn,
on the night of the Goth, after protracted
illness.
AT the Cheboygan (Mich.) Lumber Com
pany's mill a log carriage was accdently
started on the evening of the 25th, result
ing in horrible and probably fatal injuries
to Edmund Lapeer and Dan Albright.
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS in
gold left the sub-treasLry at st. Louis for
Chicago on the Goth. This is the second
, shipment of a like sum to the city on the
lake within three months. The money
was shipped in five barrels of 100000
each, containing twenty bags of $1,000
: each.
THE body Of Albert Huber, a prosperous
farmer in Miami, O.,was found in his corn.
crib on the morning of the Goth, the top OF
his head blown off, shotgun by his side
and other circumstances clearly indicating
suicide.
FIRE broke out in w. H. Harsh's -four
} mill at Winterset, Ia, on the Goth, and de.
stroyed the entire structure, with all its
3 contents. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000
The fire is supposed to have originated
from hot box.
THE postal telegraph has been consoli.
; dated with the Canadian Pacific, and
John W. Mackay retires.
SOME miscreant tried to wreck q
train on the Wabash near Danville, ILL.,
on the Goth, but the scheme was frustrat
, ed.
THE owners of the fishing schooner Lydia
r T. Crowell, of Beverly, Mass, have giver
, her up for lost. She was ninety-five tons
q burthen. 1t is believed that all on boarC
were lost. She was in charge Of Captain
b. Moses Larkin, of Nova Scotia, and had
g crew Of fifteen men. She was insured.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the
engine-room of Herbert f. Johnson's corn
canning factory at Gorham, Me-, on tn,
26th. One man was killed and a number
of others seriously injured.
The pleasure yacht Ilfracombe, while
sailing in the Thames on the Goth, turned
; back to recover a boat.hook, which haC
fallen overheard, when she was struck by
/. a squal and capsized. There were twenty
!. one persons on board, all of whom wer
A thrown into the water and twelve Of then
!. were drowned.
n EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt in severa
n portions of Georgia and South Carolina OIL
the 9th. No damage is reported but con
siderable apprehension was awakened.
; THE firm of Dresbach & Resented, o
San Francisco, failed on the 9th, and pre-
I cipitated another crisis in grain circles.
GREAT home missionary revival ha
I been inaugurated in England under tn
3 auspices of the Methodist denomination.
IT is charged that conspiracy exists a
Washington among Republican clerks t
: so bungle their reports that discredit will
o be cast upon the work of the present ad
II ministration.
d AT the close of the week ended the 21t
: the Detroit and St. Louis base ball club
d held their respective places at the head o
It the League and Association, both havin
made a gain on the week